Sam Buell quotes

“It's easier to prove if they were extremely flagrant or brazen about what they were saying. But typically that's not the case in a conspiracy where people are trying to accomplish something in more subtle ways.”

“WorldCom could occur in any era; it's more traditional book cooking. It's hard to think of another one of these cases [that] really is like Enron in the sense that it raises fundamental questions of accounting and financial reporting.”

“WorldCom could occur in any era, it's more traditional book cooking. It's hard to think of another one of these cases really is like Enron in the sense that it raises fundamental questions of accounting and financial reporting.”

“There's been such a long period of buildup and anticipation for this trial that people expected some kind of immediate payoff in instant bombshell revelations, and that's just not the way criminal trials work.”

“It's going to be the task of the cross-examiner of cumulatively undermining credibility with lots of small points, not coming up with some big bombshell that's going to leave one of these guys exposed on the witness stand in some dramatic way. It's just not going to happen that way.”